"Sharp, quirky, and occasionally nettlesome", Walking the Berkshires is my personal blog, an eclectic weaving of human narrative, natural history, and other personal passions with the Berkshire and Litchfield Hills as both its backdrop and point of departure. I am interested in how land and people, past and present manifest in the broader landscape and social fabric of our communities. The opinions I express here are mine alone. Never had ads, never will.

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Yes, Tourmarm, it is indeed! The first warship ever sunk by a submarine, the USS Housatonic was rammed by the CSS H. L. Hunley on Feb 17, 1864. The Housatonic was an Ossipee Class Steam screw sloop of war, named for the river that drains the western Massachusetts Berkshire towns and continues on through Western Connecticut to Long Island Sound.

Greenman, These combination steam-sail ships are interesting, aren't they? I'm trying to make a connection between Commodore George Dewey and the Manila Bay battle 1898 which destroyed the Spanish Fleet. This is not Dewey's flagship, the Olympia -- but it could be either the Concord, the Petrel, or the Hugh McCulloch although the latter is technically not a navy ship but a Revenue Cutter pressed into service.

I'd imagine that none of my multiple choice answers are correct so do I qualify for additional hints? LOL!
TERRY